Nathan Bullock
Tuesday October 12th 2004 - 23:23:28

Latter Day Saints readings in Plucker format

http://www.nathanbullock.org/nathan/software/lds-get.html

As I looked for various options I came across a reader program for my palm
on the church's website and various books of scripture and other manuals
that you could download for reading using this reader program.

Shortly after this I came across Plucker and Project Gutenberg. I started
using my palm to read all sorts of books and in doing so realized how much
more powerful Plucker was than the free program offered by the church for
reading scriptures on a palm.

The set of canonized scripture was also on the churches website in html
format, although, due to the bulkiness of the index structure and some
other problems, it was not very conducive to "plucking".

At this point I wrote a set of scripts to clean up the html and designed my
own index structure and started plucking this localized set of scriptures.
I was now able to read my scriptures and other church articles on my palm
in Plucker. Things were wonderful.

There was still one problem. Most of the content on the church's website
was copyrighted and permission for copying was only given for personal use.
This meant I couldn't distribute what I had plucked for others to use. So
instead I re-wrote my various scripts, made them reasonably user friendly,
and am distributing these so others can easily extract content from lds.org
themselves and read it on their Palm's using Plucker - The best offline
HTML reader and e-book reader for Palm handheld devices.



Latter Day Saints Readings in Plucker

The actual scripts that I am distributing are licensed under the GPL.
Please visit my lds-get webpage to download the scripts.. You may also
visit my my homepage to learn more about me.

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The image above was created by David A. Desrosiers with ScreenShot from
Andreas Linke. The fonts used are the Bitstream Vera font family, and were
converted for use in Plucker with the Palm Font Converter written by
Alexander R. Pruss. You can read more about how to convert fonts for use
with Plucker in our News section.